Cairene Carpets (Mamluk/Ottoman)

Atil, Esin
1981 Renaissance of Islam: Art of the Mamluks. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington. (Textiles and Rugs, pp. 223-248). See also review by Lois Ibsen al-Faruqi in The Muslim World, vol. LXXIII, no. 3-4, July - October 1983, pp. 278-279.

Beattie, May
1974 Review of Oriental Rugs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by M.S. Dimand and Jean Mailey. Oriental Art, vol. 20, no. 4, Winter, pp. 449-52.

Bier, Carol
1981 Renaissance of Islam: Art of the Mamluks (exhibition guide). Smithsonian Institution, Washington.

Boralevi, Albert
1983 The Discovery of two Great Carpets: The Cairene Carpets of the Medici, Hali, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 282-83. London.

1986 Three Egyptian Carpets in Italy, Oriental Carpet and Textile Studies, vol. 2, pp. 205-20. Carpets of the Mediterranean Countries, 1400 - 1600 (Based upon the Special Sessions of the 4th International Conference on Oriental Carpets). London.

Cavallo, Adolph S.
1962 A Carpet from Cairo, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, vol. 1, pp. 69-75.

Denny, Walter
1978 Ten Great Carpets, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Autumn 1977, Hali, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 156-64. London.

Dimand, M.S.and Jean Mailey
1973 Oriental Rugs in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. See also review (Beattie 1974).

Ellis, Charles Grant
1962 Gifts from Kashan to Cairo, Textile Museum Journal vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 33-46. Washington.

1967 Mysteries of the Misplaced Mamluks, Textile Museum Journal vol. 2, no. 2, December, pp. 3-20. Washington.

1974 Is the Mamluk Carpet a Mandala? A Speculation, Textile Museum Journal vol. 4, no.1, December, pp. 30-50. Washington.

1988 Oriental Carpets in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia.
(Egyptian and Syrian Carpets, pp. 117-131).

Enderlein, V.
1971 Zwei Ägyptische Gebetsteppiche im Islamischen Museum, Forschungen und Berichte, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, vol. XIII, pp. 7-15.

Erdmann, Kurt
1931 Some Observations on the So-Called Damascus Rugs, Art in America, vol. 19, op. 3-22.

1938a Kairener Teppiche, Teil I: Europäische und Islamische Quellen des 15-18 Jahrhunderts, Ars Islamica, vol. 5, pp. 179-206.

1938b Kairo als Teppichzentrum, Forschungen und Fortschritte vol. 14, pp.207-10.

1940 Kairener Teppiche, Teil II: Mamluken- und Osmanenteppiche, Ars Islamica, vol. 7, pp. 55-81.

1959 Wietere Beiträge zur Frage der Kairener Teppiche, Berichte aus den ehem. Preussischen Kunstsammlungen, n.s. 9, pp. 12-22.

1960 Der Orientalische Knüpfteppich. Second edition. Wasmuth, Tübingen. Originally published 1955.

1961 Neuere Untersuchungen zur Frage der Kairener Teppiche, Ars Orientalis, vol. 4, pp.65-105.

1970 Seven Hundred Years of Oriental Carpets, ed. H.Erdmann, tr. M. Beattie and H. Herzog. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles.

Ettinghausen, Richard
1978 Oriental Carpets in The Clark Collection, The Clark Collections, pp. 84-86. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington.

Ettinghausen, Richard and M.S. Dimand, Louise Mackie, and Charles Grant Ellis
1974 Prayer Rugs. Washington: The Textile Museum.

Grabar, Oleg, ed.
1984 Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture. Volume 2: The Art of the Mamluks. Yale University Press, New Haven and London.

Housego, Jenny
1986a Literary References to Carpets in North Africa, Oriental Carpet & Textile Studies, vol. 2, pp. 103-70. Carpets of the Mediterranean Countries 1400 - 1600. Edited by Robert Pinner and Walter B. Denny. London.

1986b 'Mamluk' Carpets and North Africa, Oriental Carpet & Textile Studies, vol. 2, pp. 221-241. Carpets of the Mediterranean Countries 1400 - 1600. Edited by Robert Pinner and Walter B. Denny. London.

King, Donald and David Sylvester
1983 The Eastern Carpet in the Western World from the 15th to the 17th Century. Arts Council of Great Britain, London. (See especially Cairene carpets in the Mamluk style, pp. 59-64; Other Holbein, Para-Mamluk and Compartment carpets, pp. 64-67; Cairene carpets in the Ottoman style, pp. 79-83).

King, Donald, Robert Pinner and Michael Franses
1981 Eastern Mediterranean Carpets in the Victoria & Albert Museum, Hali, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 36 - 52. London.

Kühnel, Ernst and Louisa Bellinger
1957 Cairene Rugs and Others Technically Related (15th - 17th Century). The Textile Museum.

Mackie, Louise W.
1983 Woven Status: Mamluk Silks and Carpets, The Muslim World, vol. 73, no. 3/4, pp. 253-62.

Riefstahl, Rudolph M.
1925 Das Palmenmotiv auf einem Ägyptischen Teppich der Ballardsammlung, Jahrbuch der Asiatischen Kunst, vol. 2, pp. 159-62.

Sarre, Friedrich
1921 Die Ägyptishche Herkunft der sogen: Damaskus-Teppiche, Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, vol. 32, pp. 75-82.

1924 Die Ägyptischen Teppiche, Jahrbuch der Asiatischen Kunst, vol. 1, pp. 19-23, 25.

Scheunemann, Brigitte
1955 Das Papyrusmotiv aus Ägyptischen Teppichen Mamlukischer Zeit, Kunst des Orients, vol. 2, pp. 52-58.

Spuhler, Friedrich
1978 Islamic Carpets and Textiles in the Keir Collection. Faber & Faber, London.

Thompson, Jon
1980 The Sarre Mamluk. Lefevre, London.

Troll, Siegfried
1937 Damaskus-Teppiche, Ars Islamica, vol. 4, pp. 201-31.

Unger, Edmund de
1980 The Origin of the Mamluk Carpet Design, Hali, vol. 2, no.4, pp.321-22. London.

1982 An Ancestor of the Mamluk Carpets, Hali, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 44-46. London.

Whiting, Mark
1981 The Red Dyes of Some East Mediterranean Carpets, Hali, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 55-56. London.

Zaki, Abd ar-Rahman
1958 Sajajid qahirya wa ukhra muttasila biha min al-nahiya al-fanniya [Technical and artistic aspects of Cairene rugs and others related], Al-majalla, vol. 2, pp. 119-21.

Zick-Nissen, Johanna
1964 Ein Mamlukisches Wirkteppichfragment, Berichte aus den Staatlichen Museen der Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, n.s. 14, pp. 43-44.


See also additional articles in The Muslim World, vol. LXXIII, no. 3-4, July - October 1983 and Hali 1981.



Compiled for the exhibition Beyond the Pyramids Geometry and Design in the Carpets of Egypt, 1450 -1750, 1/3/91 by Carol Bier
Revised 2/19/91 by Carol Bier